Bush slams Democrats who 'call for retreat' in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush late Wednesday renewed his campaign-season attacks on Democrats who he said "still call for retreat" in Iraq despite signs of success following the US troop surge there.

Even before the 30,000 additional American soldiers were sent to Iraq in 2007, the Democrats declared the initiative a failure, Bush said.

"And now that the surge has turned the situation around, they still call for retreat," the president said at a fundraising dinner for Republican presumptive nominee John McCain and other Republicans running for seats in the US Congress.

"They want to retreat from Iraq and hope nothing bad happens. But wishful thinking is no way to fight a war and to protect the American people."

...

"In a time of war we need a president who understands that we must defeat the enemy overseas so we do not have to face them here at home, and that man is John McCain," Bush said.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Less than a year... less than a year... we can make it...

[Doctor_J]

2. "wishful thinking is no way to fight a war"

Damn. I agree with him.

Keep talking Smirk. By November the people won't know one of you from the other.

[State the Obvious]

3. Those are the Republican "power words"

Bush uses the words will not "retreat"....McCain uses the words "will not surrender". They are hoping these expressions will trigger an " I-want-to-be-patriotic-and-support-the-war" feeling in Republicans. It worked before, so they will keep on using it.

I think that, at last, Americans know that they are being manipulated.

[flakey_foont]

4. does that wanker

have even 1 shred of credibility left?

[Doctor_J]

5. Hey Harry, Nancy. He's calling you traitors. Why are you afraid of

prosecuting him? He's got 30% approval rating. Get to work or be on the wrong end when this thing blows up.

[gratuitous]

6. But if we've won, why can't we leave?

Riddle me that, Cokeman.

[seriousstan]

9. Easy with the Coke smear, that could go several ways.

[KansDem]

7. Hey, Bush! Don't bite the hand that feeds you!

The Dems in Congress are going to let you and your gang off the hook for spying illegally on us. Show some gratitude!

[ixion]

8. and * has credibility on this because...

:shrug:

[AndyA]

10. Bush, of course, is overlooking the fact that the war is based on LIES.

HIS LIES.

If we had a Congress with a spine, he and Dick Cheney wouldn't be out making speeches, they'd be meeting with their attorneys fighting impeachment.

Go Kucinich! IMPEACH THE BASTARDS!!

[boomerbust]

11. We must stay the course

until the Exxon no bid contracts are signed.

[hadrons]

12. can he NAME these Democrats who SAID this????

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. A retreat is a tactical withrawal. I think what people have in mind is

more like a kind of strategic withdrawal.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

14. Come Jan. he can go over there & help fight this war he wanted so badly.

[bemildred]

15. Voters slam pResident that calls for giant f**king messes in Middle East. nt